France Lied, People Died

You might remember a very moving series of pictures from 2000. It showed a man trying to shelter his child while the two were trapped in an Israeli - Palestinian crossfire. The final photos showed the boy, supposedly lyind dead in the street alongside his severely wounded father.

Egypt and Tunisia issued postage stamps of the boy, Muhammad al-Dura, crouching against his father and under attack from a fusillade of bullets in September 2000. Egypt named a street in his honor, and suicide bombers invoked the boy as a martyr in videotaped farewells.

The French News agency that circulated the photos blamed the Israelis for the killing, although no hard evidence was ever produced. The photos were the ignition point for the latest incarnation of the Intifada, the Palestinian uprising that ended Tuesday with the truce announced by Sharon and Abbas in Egypt.
Thousands died in that Intifada. But, it turns out that those pictures were probably staged and guess what, the French are still lying about it.